1376 years ago, in 1931, Empire of Japan used a false flag operation as casus belli to invade Manchuria.
Eight years later, Germany did the same to attack Poland.
A few months later the Soviet Union did the same to attack Finland.
All of these cases essentially boiled down to unconfirmed allegations being used to wage war.
They led to one of the bloodiest conflicts of the humanity's long-forgotten 20th century.
League of Mandu has done the unjustifiable. They used unconfirmed allegations made by confirmed criminals trying to evade execution as pretext for war. All of that while ACT, an organization enacted by the bulk of humanity in painstaking negotiations between borderline hostile superpowers for the very purpose of solving this mystery, was working to verify the claims.
Regardless of whether Hadrian Duval is guilty or not, this has to be openly denounced and punished. The entire galactic community - Federation, Empire and Alliance alike, along with every single independent system and faction with enough imagination to understand that they can be next - ought to demand that whoever was behind the order to invade Paresa is tried for this outrageous act.
Eight years later, Germany did the same to attack Poland.
A few months later the Soviet Union did the same to attack Finland.
All of these cases essentially boiled down to unconfirmed allegations being used to wage war.
They led to one of the bloodiest conflicts of the humanity's long-forgotten 20th century.
League of Mandu has done the unjustifiable. They used unconfirmed allegations made by confirmed criminals trying to evade execution as pretext for war. All of that while ACT, an organization enacted by the bulk of humanity in painstaking negotiations between borderline hostile superpowers for the very purpose of solving this mystery, was working to verify the claims.
Regardless of whether Hadrian Duval is guilty or not, this has to be openly denounced and punished. The entire galactic community - Federation, Empire and Alliance alike, along with every single independent system and faction with enough imagination to understand that they can be next - ought to demand that whoever was behind the order to invade Paresa is tried for this outrageous act.